Satie Quotes

#1. When I was younger, I used to do that a lot: I would hear a part of a song that would really relax me and then put it on repeat. That would send me to sleep. It was quite obvious classical music, people like Penguin Cafe Orchestra, Erik Satie, Claude Debussy, Maurice Ravel.

King Krule

#2. I wanted to be a pariah, because all my heroes were cult artists, people who devoted their lives to poking into very narrow, very deep corners - Erik Satie, Alfred Jarry, Malcolm Lowry - people who suffered in order to express their vision of life.

Jim Woodring

#3. I tend to listen to the classical composers: Rachmaninov, Satie.

Enya

#4. There is a complexity and layering that goes on with this kind of thing, so the music is slightly repetitive and when I say repetitive it's in the same tradition as people like Steve Reich or Erik Satie or even WC.

DJ Spooky

#5. Can the theater teach us to wait? To forestall our satisfaction? Poems teach us how to wait. The natural world makes us wait. Erik Satie teaches us how to wait. And so does much music. Will YouTube teach us how to wait? Will YouTube teach us how to die?

Sarah Ruhl

#6. I've been listening to quite a lot of classical music like Erik Satie, and quite a lot of blues.

Elizabeth Jagger

#7. Everything that has a spare piano is 'like Satie' and everything with strings is 'filmic,' Sometimes I get annoyed when they say my stuff sounds 'like Satie'. No, it doesn't. At least, I don't think so.

Agnes Obel

#8. Erik Satie does not say the opposite of Debussy; he says the same thing only the other way round.

Jose Bergamin

#9. The waiter had set down the hot drinks, and the steam did feel glorious. The piano played Satie ever so softly. Life was almost worth living, even for a son of a bitch of a monster like myself.

Anne Rice

#10. Erik Satie died on July 1, 1925; his last words were 'Ah, the cows ...

John Richardson

#11. A city should be built to give its inhabitants security and happiness

Clarence Stein

#12. Opera is a musical scenery, a musical atmosphere in which the characters move and talk.

Erik Satie

#13. It's nice to play a character that has a soulful, dependent, close relationship. It must mean my character is interesting in some way.

Jeff Goldblum

#14. Before I compose a piece, I walk around it several times, accompanied by myself.

Erik Satie

#15. I eat only white foods: eggs, sugar, grated bones, the fat of dead animals; veal, salt, coconut, chicken cooked in white water; fruit mold, rice, turnips; camphorated sausage, dough, cheese (white), cotton salad, and certain fish (skinless).

Erik Satie

#16. Why attack God? He may be as miserable as we are.

Erik Satie

#17. I am by far your superior, but my notorious modesty prevents me from saying so.

Erik Satie

#18. Experience is a form of paralysis.

Erik Satie

#19. My dream is to be played everywhere, not only at the Opera.

Erik Satie

#20. I've never had a teenage rebellion; I'm not that type of person. I always work out my problems in a conscientious way.

Kirsten Dunst

#21. Nobody really knows who I am, where I came from, what's in my heart, why I believe in the things I believe, what I see behind the scenes and they don't see.

Hope Solo

#22. I don't know if I'm sexist, though I have not paid much attention to the women's bracket.

David Brooks

#23. When I was young, people used to say to me: Wait until you're fifty, you'll see. I am fifty. I haven't seen anything.

Erik Satie

#24. Thirty-two steps until Haley Tremaine entered hell. Thirty-two steps until she walked into the smell of alcohol and burned microwaveable meals, into a place where fear overwhelmed.

Krystal Wade

#25. When I was young, I was told: 'You'll see, when you're fifty.' I am fifty and I haven't seen a thing.

Erik Satie

#26. I have never written a note I didn't mean.

Erik Satie

#27. Deed of darkness is dark gloom.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#28. The world we want is an enormous responsibility.

Paul Polman

#29. Money? How did I lose it? I never did lose it. I just never knew where it went.

Edith Piaf

#30. Breakfast was all about possibilities. No other meal allowed for so much choice - sweet or savory, light or heavy? Tea or coffee? And while enjoying the fruit of these decisions, the whole day waited, unsullied, to be filled up like a plate.

Erin Satie

#31. I liked the bit about quarter to eleven.

Erik Satie

#32. I may not hate al of the people all the time, but I hate all of them some of the time, and I hate some of them all of the time.

Kathy McCullough

#33. I live for living

Caroline Kepnes

#34. Last year I gave several lectures on "Intelligence and Musicality among Animals" ... Today I am going to speak to you about "Intelligence and Musicality among Critics" ... The subject is much the same, with some modifications, of course.

Erik Satie

#35. I took to my room and let small things evolve slowly.

Erik Satie

#36. I came into the world very young, in an age that was very old.

Erik Satie

#37. We should have a music of our own - if possible, without any Sauerkraut.

Erik Satie

#38. The scenes and events of long ago, and the persons who took part in them, wear a charming aspect to the eye of memory, which sees only the outlines and takes no note of disagreeable details. The present enjoys no such advantage, and so it always seems defective.

Arthur Schopenhauer

#39. The musician is perhaps the most modest of animals, but he is also the proudest. It is he who invented the sublime art of ruining poetry.

Erik Satie

#40. We cannot doubt that animals both love and practice music. That is evident. But it seems their musical system differs from ours. It is another school ... We are not familiar with their didactic works. Perhaps they don't have any.

Erik Satie

#41. Nay if even in the house of Hades the dead forget their dead, yet will I even there be mindful of my dear comrade.

Homer

#42. I am tired of always dying with a broken heart.

Erik Satie

#43. what ever you do do your best

Derek Benz

#44. Campaigns and primaries can get ugly. There are always messy squabbles.

Joy-Ann Reid